Movies like My Little Loves (1974)
The best movies like My Little Loves (1974) are Two Queens and One Consort (1981), The Grand Highway (1987) and Bilitis (1977). If My Little Loves hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe 400 Blows (1959)8.0/10 from 2,429 votes
- NewestJuliette in Spring (2024)Released 2024
- In FrenchThe Grand Highway (1987)Also in French
Two Queens and One Consort (1981)
At the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Grand Highway (1987)
Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- old girl next door, and learns from her about life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBilitis (1977)
A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a teenage girl during summer vacation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe 400 Blows (1959)
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisLove Like Poison (2010)
Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her beloved grandfather. She also grows close to Pierre, a free-spirited teenager who cares little about God. Anna is preparing for her confirmation, but her budding desire for Pierre shakes her faith. She longs to give herself over, body and soul... but doesn't know if it is to God, or something else?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Beyond the Horizon (2020)
Summer '76, there's a heatwave and the Swiss countryside is drying out at top speed. In this stifling environment, Gus who is thirteen years old and son of a farmer, sees both his family environment and his innocence relentlessly breaking. He's living the end of a world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Naked Childhood (1969)
Handed over to foster care by his mother—who's unwilling to give up permanent custody—the now-adolescent François understands that nothing in life is permanent, and his increasingly erratic actions reflect this knowledge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDocumenteur (1982)
After separating from the father of her son, a young French woman tries to find lodging and a fresh start in L.A. for herself and her son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBetty (1992)
A drunken, self-destructive woman called Betty wanders into a Parisian bar where she meets middle-aged alcoholic Laure. Laure decides to take care of Betty. Recovering in a hotel room, Betty begins to recount to Laure the story of her bourgeois life and her unhappy and unfaithful marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMouchette (1967)
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Beguines (1972)
Hélène, a fragile and romantic teenager, discovers that her father, a rich business man, has a mistress. Curious, she decides to go and meet this woman who is described as strange. At the first chance she has she goes to her house in the Ramparts of Béguines... from then on she goes back often, discovering a new world of artists and nightowls where she also experiences love in the arms of Tamara.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
I Love You, I Don't (1976)
The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that he's gay.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisNo Fear, No Die (1990)
Dah and Jocelyn come from former French colonies to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Clement (2001)
Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Graduate First (1978)
A slice of life of a group of young working class friends in a Northern French village coming to the end of their school years and embarking upon adult life. The film follows the choices and decisions made for their futures.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeatrice (1987)
Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however that the father whom she loves from distance will be the most hateful person who will submit her and her family to abuse and humiliation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Lacemaker (1977)
Pomme is a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. She becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student François. The relationship sours when François takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Strange Ones (1950)
Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowball fight. As a coping mechanism, the two conjure up a hermetic dream of their own making. Their relationship, however, isn't exactly wholesome. Jealousy and a malevolent undercurrent intrude on their fantasy when Elisabeth invites the strange Agathe to stay with them -- and Paul is immediately attracted to her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Prodigal Daughter (1981)
A young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers her father is having an affair, becomes jealous of his mistress and tries to turn his feelings in her direction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVagabond (1985)
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPlaying with Love (1977)
Laura and Fabrizio have been meeting every summer in the forest by her parent's summer home. Fabrizio is a solitary boy with only his dog for company; Laura a sweet but unconfident child. This summer new aspects enter into their story as both are growing up. Laura is falling in love with Fabrizio, while he displays a new sexual awareness of her masked by his malice. Things develop further when they meet Sylvia who, unlike the innocent Laura, is confident and assertive. Fabrizio develops a fascination with her, eventually bribing Laura to fetch her to the forest to join them in play.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFruits of Passion (1981)
A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience to him in a Chinese brothel. A poor boy sees her and falls in love with her. To get the money needed to sleep with her, he takes part in rebellious acts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Meetings of Anna (1978)
Detached filmmaker Anna Silver arrives in Germany to show her latest film; over the course of some days, she encounters a variety of new and old faces, some of whom make personal revelations to her to little affect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Long Absence (1961)
Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband. But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to bring back his memory of earlier times.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNenè (1977)
In the Catholic and traditionalist Italy, two teenagers covertly discover new prohibited games.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
U.S. Go Home (1995)
In the sixties, in a suburb near Paris, Martine wants to lose her virginity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Passengers of the Night (2022)
On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to support herself and her two teenage children. She finds work at a late-night radio show and encounters a troubled teenager named Talulah whom she invites into her home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSign of the Lion (1962)
An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Little Princess (2011)
Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of others. When Hannah forces her daughter to pose as a model, Violetta finds her life with her loving grandmother turned upside down.The resulting pictures quickly become a sensation for the trendy 70's Paris art scene, and Violetta finds herself caught in between her new stature as an art muse and her dull childhood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJuliette in Spring (2024)
Juliette goes back in her hometown to spend some time with her family. She finds herself between a loving but moody father, a New Age mother, a sister in the midst of an existential crisis, and a grandmother slowly losing her mind. Buried memories and family secrets rise to the surface in this sweet, tender and sometimes extravagant family portrait.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like My Little Loves?
The closest matches to My Little Loves are Two Queens and One Consort (1981), The Grand Highway (1987) and Bilitis (1977). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after My Little Loves?
People who watched My Little Loves most often go on to Two Queens and One Consort (1981), The Grand Highway (1987) and Bilitis (1977).
What is the highest-rated movie like My Little Loves?
The 400 Blows (1959), rated 8.0/10 by 2,429 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like My Little Loves?
Juliette in Spring (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like My Little Loves?
Yes: The Grand Highway (1987), Bilitis (1977) and The 400 Blows (1959).
How are movies similar to My Little Loves chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside My Little Loves, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.